Reddy stared at her for a minute. Then he began to understand
that Granny Fox had simply scared him into running across the
bridge. Reddy felt very cheap, very cheap indeed. "Now we'll run
back again," said Granny Fox. And this time Reddy did.



II. Granny Shows Reddy a Trick

Every day Granny Fox led Reddy Fox over to the long railroad
bridge and made him run back and forth across it until he had no
fear of it whatever. At first it had made him dizzy, but now he
could run across at the top of his speed and not mind it in the
least. "I don't see what good it does to be able to run across a
bridge; anyone can do that!" exclaimed Reddy one day.

Granny Fox smiled. "Do you remember the first time you tried to
do it?" she asked.

Reddy hung his head. Of course he remembered--remembered that
Granny had had to scare him into crossing that first time.

Suddenly Granny Fox lifted her head. "Hark!" she exclaimed.

Reddy pricked up his sharp, pointed ears. Way off back, in the
direction from which they had come, they heard the baying of a
dog. It wasn't the voice of Bowser the Hound but of a younger
dog. Granny listened for a few minutes. The voice of the dog grew
louder as it drew nearer.